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Trump Plaza Unwittingly Promotes Benefits of Online Gambling
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY --
In another move designed to cut jobs, save labor, dehumanize entertainment, and continue to squeeze profit from revenue, corporate managers at Trump Plaza started test-marketing a new concept earlier this month.
Automated poker tables, with a computerized dealer sitting in for the normal human one, have set up shop at the Atlantic City casino. Fourteen tables designed by PokerPro can accomodate up to ten players.
Eah gambler sits at a video screen, which displays his hand to him. The computer automatically shuffles, deals, and identifies the winner of each hand.
The advantage of computerization, to the player, is speed. More hands are playable per hour due to quicker shuffling and smooth dealing. The advantage to the house is, of course, cost. In these unionized times, computer dealers require no salary, no benefits package. Wonder how the United Auto Workers, intent on negotiations toward a labor contract with Trump Plaza, feel about computerized dealers.
The speed element does not offset the loss of human input. A quality dealer brings humor and personality to the table; after all, this is entertainment. Interaction with both the dealer and other players is part of the enjoyment of the experience.
Of course, some may disagree. Computerized dealers may seem desirable, and computerized competition would be more so. Better yet, why leave home to go to a crowded, noisy casino full of people? When players loving the PokerPro model start abandoning the casino for online gambling in droves, the Trump Plaza will have no one to blame but themselves.
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